• Two, this is not a long-term -- this is not a -- by definition, a long-term plan.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Still more unlikely is the prospect that--whether we are represented or not--a majority of the Tribunal's jurists would be supportive of U.S. positions in cases before the court.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Protect US sovereignty: Sink the Law of the Sea

  • However, many Conservative MPs want him to go further and to commit to a referendum on the question of whether the UK remains in the EU or not - a so-called "in-out vote".

    BBC: Nick Clegg: UK 'valuable' to US partly because of EU

  • It is not -- a participatory democracy is not -- the participation is not just limited to the vote you cast on an Election Day, but is, or can be, or should be year round.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • When I decided to break away from my cubicle-bound life, I was 23 years old, the daughter of a protective family in India and had graduated from university in Singapore only two years earlier with a not-so-helpful Economics degree and a not-so-comforting amount of student debt.

    BBC: How I quit my job to travel: The social media addict

  • While we work to build a better system, wouldn't it also be responsible to find a way to get something -- not a perfect solution, not even a long-term solution -- into the hands of the more than 46 million uninsured Americans who don't share our good fortune?

    WSJ: What Tennessee Is Doing About Health Insurance

  • What the details of that look like, again, I don't want to negotiate, but what is not possible is a significant deal that does not -- is not achieved in a balanced way -- which includes cutting spending from non-defense discretionary, from defense, from health care entitlement programs, and from the tax code.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Green and yellow - not surprisingly - a favoured colour.

    BBC: Rio leads the American millennium

  • Dignity will not get you a high-profile apparel contract or a magazine cover and it does not ensure a post-playing career as a blustering talking head.

    WSJ: Jason Gay: The Lesson of Mariano Rivera

  • That's a practical programme - not a fantasy - but relevant, necessary, deliverable, real.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Donald Dewar's speech

  • The player's software ships on a disc -- not a full-sized one, mind you, but the kind of miniature disc that simply won't play nice with my laptop's slot-loading optical drive.

    ENGADGET: IRL: Nexus One, Sansa Clip Zip, DeLorme PN-60 and the HP TouchPad

  • So this is not a -- this is not a deepwater facility.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • But this is not necessarily a negative trend, because new treatments - although not providing a cure - are allowing those with the virus to live much longer before contracting full-blown Aids.

    BBC: US HIV cases 'on the rise'

  • It was -- when the United States Senate was asked to express its opinion, 95 to nothing it said that the Kyoto Treaty was not -- was a flawed treaty.

    CNN: Karen Hughes discusses Bush's global agenda

  • The judge simply ruled that with no company seeking currently to actively drill in deepwater, that basically there -- without -- we did not -- in a sense, we lacked standing for a ruling because the type of activity that we were looking to ban was not happening.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • HP's newest 11.6-inch not-quite-a-netbook (or a notbook as we like to call it) is the first Fusion system to hit the market, and with a dual-core 1.6GHz E350 Zacate processor and AMD Radeon HD 6310 GPU on the same chip it promises... well, everything AMD has promised for so long.

    ENGADGET: HP Pavilion dm1z (with AMD Fusion) review

  • Lecturers could also lecture from wherever they are (home, office, classroom), and we can invite the best lecturers for a variety of topics without having to fly them across the globe - not a minor detail in a carbon-conscious world.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • But I do not expect a -- this is not a reopening of a process that was completed in December of 2009.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The markets, when we spoke in mid-day and earlier in the morning, had all the earmarks of a market that was way oversold, and the action gave a lot of people - not only me - a huge head fake.

    NPR: Floor Trader Describes Wall Street Gyrations

  • We recognize the McConnell proposal as a potential fallback option -- not a preferred option, but a fallback option -- simply to get that done.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • In Mississippi, a proposal to declare that an embryo is a person in law from the moment of fertilization did not win - a defeat for social conservatism (though of course not all social conservatives are Republican).

    BBC: Elections help Obama. A bit.

  • Earlier this year Obama tapped Stern--not a noted budget expert--to a commission that will suggest ways to reduce the federal deficit.

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  • We've put a tax cut -- a tax cut, not a tax hike -- a tax cut into the pockets of the vast majority of small business owners and employees.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Explains Why Health Insurance Reform is Crucial for Small Business | The White House

  • As a result, how - and not just whether - a claimant is able to accomplish tasks like walking and planning journeys will help determine the amount they are entitled to in benefits.

    BBC: Man's hand on wheelchair

  • First is the realization, healthy in itself, that money need not--indeed, should not--sit in a 5% savings account.

    FORBES: The Smarter They Are, The Harder They Fall

  • While the tactic could have hurt a weaker movie--not showing a film in advance is often interpreted as a sign of a stinker--The Grand managed to develop some low-key buzz anyway.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • While the tactic could have hurt a weaker movie--not showing a film in advance is often interpreted as a sign of a stinker-- The Grand managed to develop some low-key buzz anyway.

    FORBES: Wagering On The Grand

  • You transmit both the two-and-a-half minutes -- not the 43 -- the reaction that's based off the two-and-a-half minutes, not the 43, and decisions are made on personnel based on that.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And yet a British court in London - not a European court in Strasbourg - has now provided yet another hurdle in the way of the deportation of what Mrs May called "a dangerous man".

    BBC: Abu Qatada bursts May's bubble

  • She uses tack needles--not quite a quarter-inch long--for fine lines, and removes them with tweezers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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